Definition of brutal
(adj)
(of persons or their actions)
able or
disposed to
inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod
treatment of the kulaks"; "a
savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
resembling a beast;
showing lack of
human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a
dull and brutish man"; "bestial
treatment of prisoners"